While Labor Force does not attribute the move to public pressure, owners still accepted the $6,000 incentive the city offered to cover moving expenses.

"We moved because I wanted to and for no other reason," general manager Toby Lewis said.

Commissioners have been trying for months to drain the city of its four labor pools, which neighbors say attract vagrants, transients and other undesirables to the area.

City Attorney Carl Coffin said $1,800 would be used to buy out the current lease and another $1,800 will go toward a new lease, with the remaining money used to renovate the new location.

"We're pleased to move. We're in an undesirable area," said manager Don De Mercurio, who is taking his business from the 300 block of Hibiscus Street to the Trail Center plaza in the 2200 block of Military Trail in unincorporated Palm Beach County.

"I'm happy to see them go," said John Margillo, dispatcher at the neighboring Bonded Couriers office. "The area will be a lot cleaner, less noise, less hanging out over there."

Julia Castillo, a cook at the neighboring Deverly's Caribbean-American Restaurant, said she will not even notice the difference.

And at the new location, about two blocks north of Okeechobee Boulevard, future neighbors also had mixed emotions.

"It's disappointing the landlords would want to rent to them," said the manager of a jewelry store, Solid Gold, who identified herself as Evie.

On the other hand, April Piccirillo, part owner of neighbor-to-be Piccirillo Inc., was enthusiastic.

"Whoever wants to open a business, that's good," said Piccirillo, who runs a construction company.